Christmas Time!

I love Christmas!  I really, really do!  Which is why I decided to finally finish the novel of a post I was working on about the last few months so I could post about the things I am so excited about right now!

My heart is just full of joy this Christmas Season.  I have warm house, a wonderful husband, and a perfect, precious little boy.  I love how happy my little family makes me!  December has been a great month for me so far, and I just cannot contain how happy I am to be alive right now!
    Hudson has grown so much the last few weeks...my baby is no longer a newborn, he is definitely a little baby!  He started rolling from his tummy to his back the week of Thanksgiving, and I can normally get him to roll at least once or twice a day.  He has only rolled once from his back to his stomach, but I'm pretty sure that's because something was in the middle of the bed that helped to make and indent for him to roll into.  I also have a SMILEY baby boy!  His smiles just light up the whole room!  They are so adorable!  Sometimes it takes some coaxing to get them out of him...but don't worry, they come.  Sometimes on the days when I am feeling especially down, he start smiling and cooing, and everything becomes better!  For awhile he would only smile at me, but now he is smiling at everyone as long as you play with him.  He also has GROWN!!!  BIG TIME!  I put him to bed one night, and I think he must have eaten some magic beans or something because when he woke up he was bigger!  No joke!  He was heavier and longer, and just had a different look of understanding, he now will focus on things and explore them.  Especially his hands and feet which I just think is so precious.  He really is just the perfect little baby.  His reflux is getting better.  He only throws up a few times a week instead of multiple times a day, and he isn't nearly as fussy.  Except when I take him to the store....I think that little guy has a store radar because he will be great and happy all day long, and then as soon as we get into the store he starts screaming!  So the only way I can go to the store now is to hold him in one arm, and push the cart and shop with the other.
   This week is finals and Joe is working so hard to get good grades in all of his classes.  He has decided that he wants to go to Medical school now, so he is working extra hard to make sure his grades are good, and I am so proud of him.  They are training him for a management position at work so he has been going in early every day for the last week or so.  I am so proud of him for how hard he has worked at his company.
   As for me I am just loving being a mommy.  Getting a little stir crazy at home though.  I am excited for when school starts again (I think I just have a thing for being busy,) but I am worried about babysitters for Hudson and how I am going to juggle that.  I've been so excited this entire month because at the end of this week Hudson and I get to go to my parent's house for Christmas!  Hudson and I will be going home on Sunday with Allison, while Joe stays in Rexburg for a few more days to work, and then he will drive to Gooding to spend Christmas with us!  I'm really grateful that Joe is willing to stay by himself for a few days so that I can get some extra time with my family.  I felt bad that I was going to be leaving him, so I put together a Christmas countdown for him, so that he will have something special each day this month!  It has been a great project for me because I love getting to do sweet "wifey" type things for my husband and this had "sweet wifey" written all over it!  I'll post a picture of it, but basically Joe gets to read one card each day before he goes to work and it is an assortment of compliments, services, and activities.  I LOVE getting to watch him read them and get all excited about his "gift" for the day.  It has really also helped me to see all the helpful, little thing he does for me, and has increased my love for him even more!